Explanation

The sentence refers to yesterday, indicating a past event, so past simple tense is needed.

"Did not come" is the correct negative form of the past simple tense, as "did" already carries the past meaning.

Explanation

"Neither of them" is singular, so it takes a singular verb ("was").

In subject-verb agreement, "neither" always takes a singular verb, even though it refers to two people.

Explanation

The sentence is in reported speech, so "will" changes to "would" in indirect speech.

"He replied" indicates a past reporting verb, requiring a shift from future (will) to past (would).

Explanation

The verb "said" is typically followed by "that" when reporting a statement.

"That he has lost my pen" is a correctly structured reported speech sentence.

Explanation

Lest is used to express a negative purpose or warning, meaning to avoid the possibility of something happening.

The correct structure after lest is a verb in the subjunctive mood (without do, does, or will).

Explanation

The sentence is in the past tense, as indicated by "the last match," so the past form lost is correct.

Lose is present tense.

Loses is singular present.

Has lost is present perfect.

Explanation

The verb encouraged is followed by a gerund (winning), which functions as a noun in this context.

Gerunds are commonly used after verbs like encourage when referring to an activity or action.

Explanation

Who is used as a subject pronoun to ask about the person responsible for an action.

In this sentence, the question is about the doer of the action (who had broken the chair), so who is the correct choice.

Explanation

When comparing two things, we usually use better, but since "this is the" is present, we need the superlative form (best).

Good is the positive form.

Explanation

In the sentence, "obey" is the main verb because it shows the action that "him" is made to do.

It follows the causative verb "make," which takes a bare infinitive (obey) without 'to' after it.